All Quotes

I grew up in Minnesota, where we treasure our tradition of civic engagement - and our record of having the nation's highest voter participation.
‐‐ Al Franken

I grew up in Mississippi, and there's no fashion game there. Even in 'Bling Ring,' I had to learn a lot about fashion - you know, the differences between lapels - and it wasn't until we'd wrapped that I really started getting into it.
‐‐ Israel Broussard

I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A.
‐‐ Israel Broussard

I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor.
‐‐ Mike deGruy

I grew up in Montpelier, Indiana. It's a little town in the northeast corner of Indiana. It's a rural community; about two thousand people, a very much hometown U.S.A. kind of thing.
‐‐ Kevin A. Ford

I grew up in Mossel Bay in South Africa on the Garden Route. It's really windy there, and I like it. I enjoy links golf a lot.
‐‐ Louis Oosthuizen

I grew up in Mumbai.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
‐‐ A. J. McLean

I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas... raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plumbing. My grandmother was a very religious woman, though, and she gave me a lot of faith and inner strength.
‐‐ Alana Stewart

I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on.
‐‐ Lupita Nyong'o

I grew up in neighbouring Hawaii, where Tahiti is regarded as a brother.
‐‐ Marie Helvin

I grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and I'm a huge Red Sox fan. I've probably been to Fenway 40 times. I've been pretty lucky as a sports fan because the Patriots have won Super Bowls and the Red Sox have won World Series during my lifetime.
‐‐ Peter Uihlein

I grew up in New England at the edge of the Atlantic and have for many years been an avid rower. I've rowed in various places, including the Ganges in India, the River Shannon in Ireland, and the Sea of Galilee.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney

I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.
‐‐ Steven Tyler

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.
‐‐ Joe Dante

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big cities and all the stuff we are bombarded with. I am happier at my ranch in the middle of nowhere watching a bug carry leaves across the grass, listening to silence, riding my horse, and being in open space.
‐‐ Tom Ford

I grew up in New York.
‐‐ Yunjin Kim

I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.
‐‐ Dean O'Gorman

I grew up in New York City, a town with different races, religions, and peoples. It breeds tolerance.
‐‐ Donald Trump

I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky - it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother's ziti and meat sauce.
‐‐ Christa Miller

I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.
‐‐ Ben Schnetzer

I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
‐‐ Maggie Wheeler

I grew up in New York City. I went to museums so much as a kid, and I guess I didn't realize how much it affected me.
‐‐ Lisa Randall

I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
‐‐ Gail Carson Levine

I grew up in New York City in the '80s, and it was the epicenter of hip-hop. There was no Internet. Cable television wasn't as broad. I would listen to the radio, hear cars pass by playing a song, or tape songs off of the radio. At that time, there was such an excitement around hip-hop music.
‐‐ Michael Rapaport

I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.
‐‐ John Pomfret

I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield

I grew up in New York, I love New York.
‐‐ Caroline Kennedy

I grew up in New York in an English-speaking environment.
‐‐ Erik Estrada

I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or 14 years old. But I was also really shy when I was growing up.
‐‐ Steven Strait

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
‐‐ Kerry Washington

I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
‐‐ Gabriel Macht

I grew up in New York where there is such a different variety of people.
‐‐ Selenis Leyva

I grew up in Newquay, on the Atlantic coast and there developed a love of the sea and boats.
‐‐ Antony Hewish

I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.
‐‐ Ken Jeong

I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.
‐‐ Louise Erdrich

I grew up in north Norfolk, which certainly used to have an enormous sense of community. There are more and more second homes there now, so I'm not sure how that has damaged it. But where I live in South London, there is a beautiful community; it's the friendliest place I have ever lived, which comes as a surprise to non-Londoners.
‐‐ Olivia Colman

I grew up in North Yorkshire, but now London is home.
‐‐ James Norton

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.
‐‐ Tracy K. Smith

I grew up in Northern California, so the hippies were still around. My father and mother were very Republican, very strait-laced and very uptight, but my uncles were hippies.
‐‐ Grant Show

I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.
‐‐ Jonathan Ames

I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings.
‐‐ Amanda Hale

I grew up in Nova Scotia, so there weren't a whole lot of rules.
‐‐ Diego Klattenhoff

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
‐‐ G-Eazy

I grew up in Ohio, and I was a musicologist since I was little; it is all that I would ever read.
‐‐ Nina Blackwood